Year 2
Spring 2 Home Learning
Dear parents/carers,
Welcome to the Spring 2 Term Year Two newsletter.
This half term, our topic in Year 2 is ‘Walk on the wild side.’
As part of this topic, we will be learning all about different animals, their habitats and the country Kenya.
In science, we are going to be looking at food chains and classifying animals in the 5 vertebrate groups and by what they eat. We will learn about habitats around the world and the animals and plants that live in those habitats, including how they are adapted to living there. We will even take a trip to Yorkshire Wildlife park to learn more about animals! Can you create a poster all about your favourite animal? What do they eat? Where do they live? What are they classified as? Are they a herbivore, carnivore or omnivore?
Maths
In maths we will be covering a range of skills including multiplication, division, addition, subtraction and fractions. We will explore mass, weight, length, height, temperature and volume. We will also look at bar charts, pictograms and tally charts.
To learn more about your maths topics, you could access these resources:
To learn about time:
ICT Games - Hickory, Dickory Dock - choose level 1
To learn about measure:
ICT Games - Capacity Countdown
To learn about shape you could use:
BBC Bitesize - 2D and 3D Shapes
You could also play Hit The Button
Core Books
We will be reading these books in school too:
We will do two pieces of writing based around these books, learning to use commas in a list, expanded noun phrases, apostrophes for contraction and possession, questions, exclamations and focusing on our spelling.
You should already have your Spelling Shed and TT Rockstars logins, but please let us know if you are having any problems accessing this at home. Please also make sure you are trying your best to read at home: even if it’s just two pages each night.
Home Learning Expectations
Please take some time to look at the following table to see what your child should be doing at home to extend their learning:
Reading their book band book - X3 a week
TT Rockstars Soundcheck - Daily for 10 minutes
Spelling Shed - Daily for 5 minutes
Thank you!
The Year Two team